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Jiří Polívka
Czech ethnographer, linguist, literature historian, literary theorist, professor, publicist, university educator and science writer (1858–1933).
Died March 21st, 1933 at 75 years old in Libeň. [ref]
Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier. Xenophon